Insights For Product Owners

The Internet of Things is actively shaping both the
business and consumer worlds—and it's going to be a tough year for
innovation departments of modern enterprises. Smart tech finds its
way to every business domain there is—from retail to healthcare,
from finances to logistics—and a missed opportunity strategically
employed by a competitor can easily qualify as a long-term
failure

Tech innovation in retail has been running at a breakneck pace
in the last decade. A host of solutions have appeared on the
horizon, including everything from blockchain and
augmented reality to
advances in data science and
machine learning that have found practical application in the
retail sector

Technology has been increasingly adopted by all major
industry sectors over the last several years—and the energy
industry is no exception. Tech innovation is no longer associated
only with replacement of paperwork with automated electronic
systems. The next step is reinvention of the ways that energy and
utilities companies do business, engage their customers and
interact with them. And let us not forget about Energy 4.0, a buzzword used to denote the
digital revolution in this industry

It's been predicted that the number of Internet of
Things devices will reach nearly 21 billion by 2020. Their
diversity is rapidly growing as industrial products, wearables, and
smart household appliances continue to emerge. Data collection and
communication capabilities of IoT products have created new ways
for businesses to interact with their customers as well as get new
sources of marketing data

Augmented reality is no longer a futuristic fantasy. It is here and
now, a viable part of the consumer market, available for millions
of mobile users. Headsets, however, are a more complicated case,
given all the limitations and issues with battery life,
performance, and convenience for the user. Despite all that,
businesses seize opportunities to build pioneering products and use
augmented reality for engagement and retention of customers... more →

There are three fundamental things behind the choice of a
technology stack for your software product. First, your business
priorities and objectives. Second, the specifics of your business
domain and market. Third, the specifics of the stack itself. All of
these must be properly considered without contradicting each other... more →

Today we have a nice surprise for you – a demo of an
app based on NativeScript, which is currently considered one of the
most promising technologies for cross-platform development. And it
works quite differently from others. Your app will not run in a
WebView, like it goes with PhoneGap. Unlike ReactNative, your app
will not use plugins to access native features. Basically,
NativeScript offers direct access to native functionality via
JavaScript without a single line of native code

While healthcare has historically been slow to adopt
technology, the industry is about to witness significant changes
over the next several years. The digital health market is expected
to reach $206 billion by 2020. Leading companies are already
redefining themselves with digital transformation, applied to their
main functional areas with customer-centric approach

GDPR—EU regulation that protects
the personal data and privacy of EU residents on a completely new
level—is to be enforced May 25. Fines for non-compliance with this
regulation are rather large. If you do business in Europe, you will
definitely need to know the following.

Modern business reality dictates new rules of mobile
application development. Here are 11 key features, trends, and
innovations that are used in mobile apps: from simplicity in design
to mobile augmented reality and involvement of data science and
machine learning to build smarter software products that can learn
everything about your customers. We will illustrate these points
with lots of comprehensive cases from our own experience